Opinon: Unions Muscle Big Business

Political Diary editor Jason Riley on the agreement that the AFL-CIO and Chamber of Commerce has putatively reached on immigration reform.

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... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel there's a new immigration reform proposal ... sort of and it's not coming from the halls of the sun is coming from a labor union and big business ... political diary editor editorial board member and author of wet and and ... Jason Riley is here Jason ... was ... quoted on the screen of this deal between the AFL CIO in the Chamber of Commerce here's the first principle ... cannot read it ... first American worker should have the first crack in available jobs ... to that end business and labor are committed to improving the way ... the information on job openings in lesser skilled occupations reaches the maximum number of workers ... particularly those in disadvantaged communities JCI ... says the deal when the system and the sunsets in the last ... lattice ... and we all believe in gravity ... they put out a statement ... of agreed principles ... and because it was really God's they could not agree ... on why they ... met in the first place which was ... to come up with principles ... for admitting low skill workers in the guest worker program ... which is the key ... to ALM ... to getting that immigration reform right ... right now lot of focus in the media as on what to do with the eleven twelve million ... undocumented people already here ... but a bigger piece of the puzzle ... is what to do about the future ... flow corporate what to do about letting people in ... to to ALM to work in our labor markets one tear economy expands and in the jobs ... of comeback ... and so that weather labor until Fed that's what Labor and and the Chamber of Commerce got together to do ... and they couldn't they couldn't come up with out with a plan in the reason they couldn't is because ... um labor continues ... to oppose a guest worker program just the still really wanted dive into this because if you let more workers and fairly low income ... ironing and skilled workers when they be more likely to join the union ... they may eventually ... box initially they would serve as competition ... to union labor we could drive down wages ... and so forth and so unions reflexively I have a post them ... in the past may continue to sell them in the statement pretzels and says ... we agree that we need a system in place and that's considered a huge ... concession on the part of labor at what age cash and well and that's what would they would burn in ... this ... guest worker program or set it up in such a way ... that it was essentially let them control ... the flow of workers so what Labor is calling for ... is a commission ... for some sort of bureaucracy mines that way I'd do some central planning right it would identify labor shortages ... in in the U S economy Mary and then determine the number of foreign workers were allowed to come in to the country so of course Labor would have a vested interest in keeping ... its few foreign workers from coming in as possible to buy and they would have of some control ... over this ... this commission via ... the politicians that they control today yet well in his and the politicians were focusing on the stool unelected faceless group said during the deal is chasing what is this ... this is really about the White House leak last weekend to see some principal shed light on why it that that that thing that point I I think what it tells us is that the leak was ... the ... more likely than not intentional ... and that's because ... the White House realize that these talks weren't going anywhere ... and it leaked a plan that took the side of the unions in an effort to put pressure on the chamber ... pot and so we we now know that Tom could have that ... that that that that people can work in terms of the chamber not caving ... but it also aam left the chamber know that ... Labour had the blessing ... their stubbornness on this guest worker program had the blessing of the White House everyone knew this wasn't going anywhere it's another to toss it back ... to Congress and we'll see we'll see what happened to see if the White House is really that tied to the AFL CIO ... Sony has the present ever bought the AFL CIO ... I mean ... less than twenty seconds before they were probably say they have pushed back against unions on education calling for charter schools and so forth which unions don't like because much of labor and charter schools is not unionized but on on balance I think Obama is been a pretty good friend of the Calypso clouds are forming over immigration reform editorial board member Jason Riley thank you so much for me it with this